[11493] in APO News
Re: Items to Solve for CPPC Part II (Thursday 7:30pm 2-139)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elizabeth Power!)
Fri Jan 9 12:33:44 2009
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:30:47 -0500
From: "Elizabeth Power!" <epower@MIT.EDU>
To: Matthew Goldstein <austein@mit.edu>
CC: apo-news@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <49670EB8.4060801@mit.edu>
discussions to be started on apo-discuss....watch out...I've got a lot
<3
Matthew Goldstein wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks to everybody who came to tonight's CPPC. We went through an
> awful lot of material and came up with a list of things to bring
> solutions for to CPPC Part II next Thursday.
> Please look through these items and choose a few (or more) that you'd
> like to look at over the next week and come to CPPC on Thursday to
> present your thoughts. From there, we'll decide on a direction for the
> chapter and figure out who should make the things happen.
>
> Committees and officers: I have tried to break this list into sections
> to make it easy for you to find things that your office should be
> looking at in particular. Please read through the entire list, though,
> as some items may be pertinent to multiple groups.
>
> Pledge Recruitment:
> Timing:
> *Can we find a way to use IAP as an open recruitment period before
> taking pledges?
> (What mix of projects, fellowship, and skills training to
> advertise to get the people we want?)
> *Can we organize a project or help PMD during Citydays?
> *Can we let people get involved with APO after pledging ends without
> being unfair?
> More Pledges:
> *How can we get more people outside the two over-represented dorms?
> *How can we get more guys?
> *How can we differentiate ourselves from other service groups?
> (That we're a fraternity? That we do particularly interesting
> things?)
> *Can we come up with an identity to explain who we are, relevant to MIT?
> *What skills should we advertise for recruitment?
> *What can we include in the office tours to show off these skills?
> *How can we get all brothers to help with recruitment?
> (And interest people in their other clubs who would like APO)
> *Can we get more advertising to freshmen through services?
> (like reg day cards)
> *How can we keep on the ball with recruitment so it doesn't run late?
>
>
> Pledge Training:
> *What should a Big Brother training program consist of?
> *How to we make sure everybody in the chapter (not just bigs) looks
> after pledges?
> *How can we make pledge training meetings most useful?
> (Better scheduling, more/fewer, information for those who miss, etc)
>
> Service Projects:
> *What should we do for a new big project?
> (Servcomm should consider location, ability to work on our own
> schedule, and visibility on campus)
> *What can we do to improve distribution of projects over term?
> *What can we do to get more one-off off-campus projects?
> Skills:
> *What should we do to start ramping up offerings of skills shops to
> other student groups?
> *What sort of skills seminars can we run to improve chapter knowledge?
> *Do we have any new skills we want?
> (face painting? balloon animals? tutoring training?)
> (tent pitching, knot tying, other boy scout style?)
> Project focus:
> *What new projects can we have that focus on: (ordered most to least
> popular)
> Projects around Cambridge like building park benches
> Projects working with kids
> Projects focused on sustainability
> Projects with campus beautification
>
> Leadership Aspects:
> *How can we get PCs to include more info about projects/events when
> sending mail?
> *What should go on a PC cheat sheet for each type of PCship?
> *What sub-PCs do we really need for fellowship events?
> (SFF didn't have any and felt fine without)
> *Can we get any help from the MIT Leadership Center?
> *What projects don't need PCs?
> (like HMMT, Splash)
>
> Fellowship and Retention:
> *Should we have more casual social events?
> *How can we get alumni more involved?
> *How can we get more contact with our advisors?
>
> Misc:
> *Do we need to revamp/get rid of UMOC or SFF?
> *Should we have retreats or retreat material built-in to chapter weekends?
>
> The Office:
> *How can we keep it from being a mess?
> *What should we do to keep communal food from being a problem?
> *What toys do we want to replenish it with?
> *Do we want to rearrange it?
>
> Treasury:
> *Do we want to have a position to review the books?
> *Do we want to restrict debtlist use?
> *What debtlist debts do we want to forgive?
> *How do we want to structure the budget preparation process?
>
> Administrative:
> *Can we have an Athena training so people can better use the locker?
> *Should we form a committee responsible for the website?
> *What do we want the WUAPO to do for us?
> *Should we have a scrapbook?
> Bylaws:
> *Do we want to change the set of committees?
> *Should webmaster be an elected office?
> *Do we want to go through the bylaws entirely to see if changes are
> needed?
>
> If you were at CPPC and read through this but didn't see an item you
> thought we decided on listed, please let me know - I tried to write down
> everything we wanted to find solutions to, but may have missed something.
>
> YiLFS,
> Matt
